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>From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Subject: Re: Daniel Dennett
In-Reply-To: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu's message of 17 Nov 91 08: 28:16 GMT
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zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
							...	the
   problem with people like Dennett, aside from what I consider to be the
   anti-humanistic orientation of their claims,

Can you elaborate on what you mean by anti-humanistic orientation?
What are the claims that you think are both credible and of humanistic
orientation?
					 is the intellectual dishonesty
   with which they dismiss any argument that casts a doubt on the fundamental
   assumptions of their project.

Your charge that Dennett has been intellectually dishonest is a
serious one.  You are no doubt prepared to substentiate this charge,
not with vague generalities, but with specific references to Dennett's
work.
   					... On the other hand, given the
   jejune approach to the problem of consciousness embodied in the works of AI
   luminaries, this should come as no surprise to anyone exposed to the
   classical treatments of this question.

Again, can you be more specific?

... oz


